Take a photo of a barcode or cover
4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
3.5/5
Just a light reread. It’s entertaining and plays with your mind for sure
Just a light reread. It’s entertaining and plays with your mind for sure
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
In this trio of tales, I have come to re-appreciate the irresistible charm and beauty of short stories. These have their own qualities, unlike that of a novel, that is utterly engrossing in spite of their brevity.
In the Yellow Wall-Paper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman brilliantly told the folly and the cruelty of how women were treated at the time. The unnamed protagonist was a very compelling example of an unreliable narrator.
In less than 30 pages, the second story, The Rocking Chair, managed to terrified the wits out of me. It also had one of the most memorable uses of a ticking time-bomb literary device: you can anxiously feel it, hear it ticking, right from the beginning, but it still took you by surprise when it explodes.
And in the closing Old Water, the only one written from the third-person perspective—very much different from the intense focus presented on the first two—I enjoyed how foreshadowing was used: surely trailing it down towards the finish, but then shifting the story abruptly for a shocking ending.
In the Yellow Wall-Paper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman brilliantly told the folly and the cruelty of how women were treated at the time. The unnamed protagonist was a very compelling example of an unreliable narrator.
In less than 30 pages, the second story, The Rocking Chair, managed to terrified the wits out of me. It also had one of the most memorable uses of a ticking time-bomb literary device: you can anxiously feel it, hear it ticking, right from the beginning, but it still took you by surprise when it explodes.
And in the closing Old Water, the only one written from the third-person perspective—very much different from the intense focus presented on the first two—I enjoyed how foreshadowing was used: surely trailing it down towards the finish, but then shifting the story abruptly for a shocking ending.
This story was maddening in more ways than one. A sorry tale of a mentally-ill women who is not listened to by the men and physicians in her life, who is shut away in an attic ("for her own good") with nothing to do, and who slowly descends into madness.
All I could think of while reading this book is how much relevance this story still holds in our modern day. While we dont lock women up in attics anymore (yay for us), many women are still often not given an equal voice, many women are still shouldering the majority of domestic duties and mental load at home, and many women are still being invalidated or dismissed by their doctors or male partners. *sigh*
This one hit hard for me. In case you couldn't already tell.
All I could think of while reading this book is how much relevance this story still holds in our modern day. While we dont lock women up in attics anymore (yay for us), many women are still often not given an equal voice, many women are still shouldering the majority of domestic duties and mental load at home, and many women are still being invalidated or dismissed by their doctors or male partners. *sigh*
This one hit hard for me. In case you couldn't already tell.
Extremely strong and eerie, I’m glad this was just a few pages because I wouldn’t have been able to bear it much longer.